Huawei will roll out a streaming music service and a mobile payments system in South Africa in the coming months, the Chinese electronics giant said on Tuesday. Mosa Hlobelo, senior manager of business development
South African technology consumers were disappointed when French telecommunications giant Orange pulled the plug on its local online retail store in 2016. But now Telkom has launched a similar store, promising
Facebook tried to get ahead of its latest media firestorm. Instead, it helped create one. The company knew ahead of time that on Saturday, The New York Times and The Guardian’s Observer would issue bombshell reports that
Uber Technologies has halted autonomous vehicle tests after one of its cars struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, in what is likely the first pedestrian fatality involving the technology. The 49-year-old woman, Elaine
Extensive changes are in the offing at South Africa’s troubled state-owned companies as new public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan moves to tackle their many management and financial failings. Power utility Eskom and
The ZA Central Registry (ZACR), South Africa’s largest administrator of Internet domain names, has slammed .ZADNA, the regulator, over a proposal to open second-level .za domains for registration. The
Facebook shares fell the most in two months on Monday as American and European officials demanded answers to reports that a political advertising firm retained information on millions of Facebook users
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